26 Days To Nieman

Rick Bragg to Kelley Benham in Orange Journalism: "While it's true people read less, while it's true that it is difficult to marry up with technology, I think the main reason that so many newspapers are failing is because they're being run without imagination, with an eye only on profits and just generally stump-dumb and butt-stupid. You've got large newspapers like the Atlanta Journal-Constitution trying to compete with television with short, quick, dumb, piece-of-shit stories. And you've got small newspapers all over the country trying to emulate USA Today, a newspaper that, at its very best, is bad. Well, we can't be TV, and we ought not try to be. We've never really reached ignorant, vapid people with newspapers.

"To read newspapers, you've got to want to read, and we insult those people every day with the crap we turn out."